Chess game of the year

Carlsen also founded his own tour, serving as host for a string of online tournaments that generated incredible drama and chess enthusiasm. Hikaru Nakamura comfortably won the Creator of the Year category. While was a breakout year for all sorts of creators in chess, no one else had the completely radical impact of Nakamura.

His Twitch and YouTube channels garnered huge followings, regularly hosting tens of thousands of live viewers. Nakamura also effortlessly combined being an elite player winner in of the Speed Chess Championship, Bullet Open Championship, Champions Showdown with Carlsen , and numerous Titled Tuesdays with content creation, streaming dozens of hours every week while playing in most elite chess tournaments.

He also became the first elite chess player signed by an esports organization, TSM , and was at the heart of the creation and success of PogChamps. Dubov is the only candidate to win in two categories as he also picked up Move of the Year for About his queen sacrifice, Dubov said, "I saw the idea of Qxg6 and first of all, I thought, I'm not worse, and second, in principle, why not make myself and the spectators a gift?

It'll be an interesting game! I saw the idea of The year was also big for computer chess as audiences hungered for the elite and deep strategic play that would normally be found in classical chess tournaments. They found it in the games of the strongest chess engines as in games like the victorious Computer Game of the Year, Leela vs.

Stockfish 11, from the Chess. The engines eschewed material and pursued deep strategic and tactical compensation with thrilling sacrifices. The engines also made radical strides in chess skill and understanding as the two core engine technologies neural networks and brute force computing were melded with Stockfish NNUE.

This technological advance was fully integrated into Stockfish 12 and showed its capabilities by winning multiple Chess. Chess may currently be experiencing the largest boom since Bobby Fischer, but that doesn't mean the eleventh world champion isn't also still relevant in the modern era. Fischer still intrigues audiences as was shown by the clear winner of the Book of the Year.

Olympiad team. Donaldson presents previously unseen games and interviews along with many long-buried stories and writings by those in Fischer's orbit.

Ultimately, Donaldson puts together the most complete picture yet of the complex person who was Bobby Fischer. Chess audiences had lots of great events to watch this year, and numerous events from would have been the largest event by viewership in almost any previous year.

In June , our Event of the Year, PogChamps, set a record for concurrent viewership with just over 85, concurrent viewers at peak and over a million viewers for a single stream. When considering the viewership of co-streamers participating in the event, the total number of viewers watching PogChamps at its peak was more than , There's been a lot of enthusiasm for a third edition of PogChamps in early , and happy to say that PogChamps 3 is coming.

Watch for a release soon. The Story of the Year as measured by readership in Chess. Even more attention was paid to the information article that received , reads in The runner-up may surprise many, but the Online Nations Cup announcement caught the imagination of many national fans and accrued , reads.

Finally, a little article interview announcing a delightful new Netflix show called "The Queen's Gambit" was read 94, times. Soon after this article was released, the show rocketed to number-one on Netflix, and it hasn't left the top 10 since then. The Clip of the Year was another contest with an extremely clear winner. The hilarious six-move battle between xQc and MoistCR1tikal in PogChamps spawned many memes, broke all chess video records on our platforms, and was a trending video on YouTube.

Ultimately, on YouTube the video received 6,, views and on Twitch, the clip received 1,, views. Thank you to the 5, voters who submitted ballots in the Chess. All voting was by rank-choice. For example, for Player of the Year, a first-place vote earned three points while a third-place vote earned one point. Creator of the Year and Book of the Year were awarded exclusively by community vote. The second DVD includes the systems with Daniil Dubov always impresses with surprising ideas and combinations.

On this DVD you will be taken on a journey through what is arguably the sharpest opening line known to men. It doesn't always have to be mating attacks, combinations or tactical entanglements, tha grab the spotlight. In an important game for the qualification race to Candidates Tournament, Alexander Grischuk demonstrated good preparation, a wealth of ideas in the middle game and very good technique in the endgame against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave at the FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Hamburg.

English Opening Powerbook To those were added games from the engine room on Playchess. Queen sacrifices often have a very special charm. Especially if they are intuitive sacrifices like the one Karthikeyan Murali pulled off at the Open Asian Championships against young talent Alireza Firouzja from Iran although perhaps for not much longer.

And the Indian grandmaster may have succeeded in beating a future elite player here, because many experts and fans see Firouzja, who celebrated his 16 th birthday on June 18, , shortly before crossing the Elo mark. King's Indian: A modern approach. Bologan: "If you study this DVD carefully and solve the interactive exercises you will also enrich your chess vocabulary, your King's Indian vocabulary, build up confidence in the King's Indian and your chess and win more games.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave too managed a brilliant game with an intuitive queen sacrifice against Hungary's Richard Rapport at the rapid tournament in Saint Louis. King's Indian: A modern approach Bologan: "If you study this DVD carefully and solve the interactive exercises you will also enrich your chess vocabulary, your King's Indian vocabulary, build up confidence in the King's Indian and your chess and win more games.